Pietro Mattioli1977 (SIGNED)
Photographs: Pietro Mattioli
Text: Martin Jaeggi
Publisher: Edition Patrick Frey
112 pages
Pictures: 90
Year: 2005
ISBN: 978-3-905509-56-4
Price: € 150
We are currently closed. All orders will be dispatched by the end of August!
In 1977 Pietro Mattioli took portraits in Zurich’s first Punk and New Wave nightclub. Their reduced and austere aesthetics followed a simple formula: the sitters were photographed with a flashlight in front of a neutral background, a fast and immediate look that was as outrageously sensationalist as it was coolly narcissistic. Mattioli created portraits that still look as fresh as if they were taken last night. They are combined with views of modernist housing tracts. Their juxtaposition atmospherically hints at the epochal shifts that took place in the late 1970s, proving that style sometimes indeed does presage the future. The portraits are inside views from the incubator of what would later be hailed as “postmodernism.” They are part of the immediate pre-history of the moment celebrated by this once inflationary term that in the meantime has as mysteriously and silently disappeared.
More by Pietro Mattioli
More books tagged “seventies”>> see all
More books tagged “punk”>> see all
More books tagged “Edition Patrick Frey”>> see all
More books tagged “pop culture”>> see all
More books tagged “portrait”>> see all
Books from the virtual shelf josefchladek.com
Moi Wer (Moi Ver, Moses Vorobeichic) - Ci-contre
Moses (Moi Ver) Vorobeichic
Ola Rindal - Road to The Farm
Ola Rindal
Bernhard Fuchs - Heustock
Bernhard Fuchs
Sasha & Cami Stone - Femmes. Collection d'études photographiques du corps humain
Sasha Stone
Livio Piatti - Schtetl Zürich - Von orthodoxen jüdischen Nachbarn - Orthodox Jewish Neighbors
Livio Piatti
Robert Frank - The Lines of My Hand
Robert Frank